Quotes by writer

"We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire."

"And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously."

"Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young."

"The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others."

"Attitude is a paintbrush. It colors everything!"

"I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them."

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

"There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories."

"But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music."

"There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question."